The majority of Hall's work focuses on language inIndia and theUnited States, with special attention to organizations ofgender andsexuality. A special focus of her work has been the linguistic and sociocultural practices ofHindi-speakingHijras in northern India, a nonbinary group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a "third sex."
Hall, Kira;Bucholtz, Mary (1995), "Introduction: Twenty years afterLanguage and Woman's Place", in Hall, Kira;Bucholtz, Mary (eds.),Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self, New York: Routledge, pp. 1–24,ISBN9780415913997.Pdf.
Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2004). Theorizing Identity in Language and Sexuality Research.Language in Society 33(4): 469-515.doi: 10.1017/S0047404504334020
Hall, Kira (2005). Intertextual Sexuality: Parodies of Class, Identity, and Desire in Liminal Delhi.Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1): 125-144.doi: 10.1525/jlin.2005.15.1.125.
Hall, Kira, Michael Meacham, and Richard Shapiro, eds. 1989.General Session and Parasession on Theoretical Issues in Language Reconstruction: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1988-1989. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, Inc. [431 pp.]
Hall, Kira, Jean Pierre Koenig, Michael Meacham, Sondra Reinman, and Laurel Sutton, eds. 1990.General Session and Parasession on the Legacy of Grice: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1989-1990. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, Inc. [559 pp.]
Hall, Kira, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwomon, eds. 1992.Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Vol. 2. Berkeley: Berkeley Women & Language Group. [309 pp.]
Hall, Kira, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwomon, eds. 1992.Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Vol. 1. Berkeley: Berkeley Women & Language Group. [299 pp.]
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